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fcs-Stetriem Vol. 3 • r *S4jSHE; . ' r -/'' . - «£&&. '' ' - ’ T/- W ; k... 7 WIlmM .afefc iMM| il '§» W WH»Uy*Mtx3fe Wb 1 *ViL raßs wk wiMWiIKL. ■t- ' '*<w-j WHRjjl*. "■ I^lF DR. JEROME W. JONES Minister, Ph.D. “If in this life only, we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” Corinthians 1:15 A former student of Dr. Jerome Jones identified his body last Thursday, according to articles in New York newspapers. Dr. Jones, a former professor at Paine College, was shot and killed last Wednesday night in an Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays Questions Federal Revenue Spending During Marathon Council Session By R. L. Oliver Augusta city councilwoman Carrie Mays highlighted what' was termed the lengthiest council session in more than a decade. Mrs. Mays, zeroing in on three major issues, suceeded in delaying the allocation of $102,970 of federal revenue sharing funds. These funds had been earmarked for lighting and other visibility improvements for Barrett Square and Greene Streets. Mrs. Mays emphasized, “Revenue sharing is not going to benefit us anyway. I am 4 Whites - Scores Os Blacks Enter Pleas In U.S. District Court More than fifty persons, mostly Black, entered pleas of guilty in U.S. District Court, Tuesday. All have been charged with gambling and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. The charges stem from the alleged multi-million dollar numbers operation here. FBI agent Edward D. Collins told the court his agency conducted surveillance GRADY ABRAMS ANNOUNCES HE WILL RUN FOR 2nd WARD COUNCIL SEAT “I feel that what we need most in government is not honest men, but men who are willing to do honest things.” So said former city councilman, Grady Abrams, as he made an announcement Sunday, of his intentions of seeking the 2nd Ward, Augusta city council seat. Elaborating on his statement, Abrams said, “The basic principle of government, being government of the people, by the people and for the people, is the only platform I’ll be running on as a candidate.” Abrams spoke of his resignation of the same seat three years ago, he pointed out, “I didn’t want to be a part of the complicity that existed at that time in government.” “And I felt that I had reached the point of NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE MEMBER exchange of gunfire with New York police. A brilliant scholar, Dr. Jones had earned the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University at the age of 29. While positive identification was still lacking, Detective James Rogers of the sixth beginning to feel like most people, revenue sharing funds always runs out when it gets to us.” When asked what she meant “us”, Mrs. Mays replied the “Black Community”. The full council voted to delay this allocation for further study. Another issue the city councilwoman pushed through with some opposition was the donation of $25,000 to the Augusta Chamber of Commerce. Councilman W.T. Ashmore, for one month in 1972, which resulted in raids on persons suspected to be involved in the alleged operation. According to testimony, most of the Blacks who entered guilty pleas were “writers” and “subwriters” who took bets and relayed them to their superiors. Robert W. (Bob) Best of Augusta, who pleaded guilty GRADY ABRAMS imcompetency and I feel that when anyone reaches that point he should remove himself from office.” “But since that time 1 have studied people in general and the wants and needs of people to better represent those needs.” The second ward council seat is presently being held by, Carrie J. Mays councilwoman. P.O. Box 953 Killed In Gunbattle Student Identifies Body Os Ex-Paine Professor district homicide and assault squad said the dead man’s fingerprints matched the classification of a man of the same name on file with the Norfolk, Va., Police Department. Dr. Jones is a native of Norfolk. The shooting, police said, occurred shortly before 9 p.m. near the intersection of E. 125th St. and Park Ave. when Police Officers Ernest Jacobowitz and Steven Santore of the E. 119th St. station house stopped their patrol car to buy cigarets. According to police, as Santore returned to his car, he felt his gun being lifted from C. Thomas Huggins, and Hugh Hamilton were opposed to donating these funds. It was their contention that Richmond Countians should foot the whole bill. On this issue Mrs. Mays pointed out, “We all benefit from the industry the Augusta Chamber of Commerce brings in, they sell Augusta. If we were to hire a public relations firm to do the same work (sell Augusta) it would cost the taxpayers $100,000.” Former Mayor Hugh Hamilton challenged the was termed the supervisor of the alleged operation. Many of theelderly Blackswere confused 1 Sickle Cell Anemia Course To Be Offered At Paine A special course entitled “Biology of Sickle Cell Anemia” will be offered at Paine College this Fall Semester. The course, designed and conducted through the cooperation of the Sickle Cell Center and Protein Chemistry Laboratory of the Medical College of Georgia is for students majoring in science and interested health workers throughout the CSRA. Meeting dates and times have been established to most conveniently suit the work schedules of potential enrollees. Lectures are to be held on Wednesday afternoon from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. with laboratory sessions to be conducted in the Sickle Cell Center by arrangement. This course. Biology 460, is offered for three hours college credit, or it may be audited. It will deal exclusively with the biological aspects of sickle cell THE PEOPLE’S PAPER his holster. Jacobowitz reportedly observed the heist and yelled for Santore to take cover. Heard the Gunfire Both cops hid behind the squad car while their assailant reportedly emptied Santore’s gun in their direction. During the shooting Jacobowitz fired six times. Penn Central Railroad Patrolman Carl Sanders heard the gunshots, raced to the scene and fired once, also hitting the gunman, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Harlem Hospital. Jocobowitz was treated at Joint Diseases Hospital for Richmond County Commission representative John T. Anderson as to why the County wouldn’t donate any money. Anderson cited a letter form the Georgia Attorney General showing where it is a violation of state statutes to donate tax payers monies. Mrs. Mays stated that the chamber of commerce could not last without the donation. The motion passed with thirteen for, two against. A third issue raised by Mrs. by legal terminology and didn’t know how to plea. One Black senior citizen told anemia and related disorders. Another course treating the sociological aspects of the disease is tentatively planned for the Spring Semester. Dr. Jack Hayes of the Paine College Biology Department and Mr. Herman Harris of the Sickle Cell Center are coordinators of the course. Roosevelt Green Involved In Women’s Conference ATHENS, Ga.-Roosevelt Green, Jr. social work instructor at the University of Georgia, formerly of Athens was a seminar speaker at the recent conference on the concerns of women at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the three-day program “The American Woman: Who Will She Be?” was designed to explore the new face injuries, caused by flying glass, and Santore received treatment for leg bruises. Both were released. Identification of the victim as Dr. Jones, 43-year-old former professor of economics at Paine College, was made by Alphonso Creekmore of 1232 Spofford Avenue, the Bronx, according to the police report on the case. Mr. Creekmore, who made his identification from morgue photographs, was described by the police as “a former student ot the victim”. Detective Rogers was unable to say how the police had found Mr. Creekmore but speculated that Mays was that she had asked the Augusta Engineering Department when construction would begin on Hopkins Street. She said, “I have asked every since last May and they continue to tell me the same thing, ‘it’s on the board.’ Well, I would like it off of the board and brought right here to the council floor.” She was assured by the engineers that bids would be let out within thirty to forty five days and construction would begin in excess of one hundred Jays. presiding Judge Anthony A. Alaimo, “Tell me the truth how to plead.” Classes will be taught by members of the Sickle Cell Center staff under the direction of Dr. T.H. J. Huisman. Those who wish to enroll or who desire further information should call or write the Office of tne Dean of Instruction , Paine College. - 722-4471. opportunities and demands confronting women today. Major conference speakers included: outspoken writer and feminist Gloria Steinem, Congresswoman Patsy Mink, Harvard psychiatrist Carol Nadelson, National American Association of University Women president Dr. Anne Campbell and Dr. Konnilyn Feig, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Maine. Augusta, Georgia “maybe it was through the deceased’s family” in Norfolk. The Norfolk Police Department, Detective Rogers said, reported a record of several arrests for a man of the same name, most of them on grounds of disorderly conduct or reckless driving. In early 1970, the police said, Dr. Jones was arrested in connection with a murder attempt upon two police officers who stopped a car because of reckless driving. There was no prosecution in the case, the police reported, and the suspect was sent to Eastern State Hospital, a mental hospital in O ■L A f I J" A x mu MRS. CARRIE MAYS EDITORIAL GOOD GOVERNMENT IS NOT FREE Each year as election time rolls around, there are new candidates and new slogans, and the hope that the best man will win. The “best man” is presumably the man with the most ability. More and more, it is mt the candidate with the most ability that wins, it is the candidate with the most money. One of the many by-products of the Watergate scandal has been the disclosure of numerous illegal campaign contributions. This is not a new problem, for many of the legal contributions are not just in that they buy the candidate. There are very few people who contribute huge sums of money just because they want their candidate to win. That money buys influence and favors. This means that the elected official is not bound to the people who elected him, but to the big money interests that control him. We can ill-afford to have this practice continue in our society, or the government of the people, for the people and by the people, will become the government of the few, with enough money to control the government. The only way that this practice can be stopped is for the people to bear the expenses of general elections. In each election, there would be a primary (at the candidate’s expense) and a general election (at the people’s expense). Obviously, the public would not be expected to finance the campaign of everybody who decided to run for office, but if there is to be a free government, the people will have insure that the able candidate without money has as much exposure as his opponent with money. And the media should be required to give equal time and space to each of the two candidates, at minimal cost. If we are willing to pay the price, we can have good government; aren’t, there there are those who will make sure that we won’t have it. Williamsburg, Va. Dr. Jones graduated from Virginia State College in 1950. He received a General Education Board Fellowship (Rockfeller Foundation) which enabled him to complete his Mast and Ph.D. degrees in history and government at Harvard in 1960. An authority on the Colonial Church in Virginia, 1690-1760 (the subject of his dessertation), he published two books and 14 articles in scholarly journals. A lay minister, he is co-author of the book FREEDOM TO THE August 23, 1973 No. 23 FREE: A CENTURY OF EMANCIPATION. This sermon was preached on Easter Sunday 1965 in Norfolk. He was Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences at Paine College. Dr. Jones had four children. He and his wife were divorced. Augustans described him as “enegertic, gentle, scholarly, a person of great warmth.” There can be little doubt that he was energetic. Within one school year he suffered a heart attack and a stroke that left him paralyzed and without speech. He miraculously recovered, but was unable to resume teaching duties. He resigned from the faculty in he fall of 1972. Upon arriving in Augusta in 1971, he became immediate’} involved in community projects such as the Concerned Mothers Club, SCLC, voter registration, and church work. He made contacts all over town. Dr. Willie Coye Williams, Dean of Instruction at Paine, spoke of Dr. Jones as a teacher, “He was a scholar. He could not half-do a job. If he had a fault, it was that he could not pace himself. The guy could make things come alive. “He more than fulfilled his duties. He had a sense of scholarliness, dedication and concern for the student.” College Chaplain Rev. Maurice Cherry said, “Jerome Jones was my friend. He was never a stranger to me, even upon our first meeting. He was a scholar working tirelessly to learn, to know, to discover the new, and to probe the unturned soil of human understanding. “His mind was fantastic, operating out of a penchant for details and finer points which led him to perfected revelations. He was a tremendous person, an inspiration to me, an influencing spirit on my life and its meaning.” Commenting on Dr. Jones, Paine President Dr. Lucius Pitts said, “Dr. Jerome Jones was a man of excellent training, and gifted, I think, with a high sensitivity of understanding of the educational needs of Black people. His doctorate from Harvard was an indication of excellent scholarship. His classroom performance, as I viewed it, showed unusual perception of the need for pupil-teacher response. His ability to promote program projects and to inspire group response was shown in several ways while he was here. He was our first chairman of our Student-Faculty Senate and led us through the formative period of that group. He conducted one of the most exciting workshops in what I call “ghetto economics” involving students, faculty and the larger community. I consider Jerome Jones a personal friend, a great friend of students, a very sensitive and a very sincere man whose vision for himself and the Black man has few parallels. “If I were doing a eulogy for Jerome, 1 would say, “He tried...he tried.”